Dokument #1276464
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
Please find attached some documents that
provide information on the Partido Nacional Renovador or Partido
Nacionalista Renovador (National or Nationalist Renewal Party,
PNR). These documents indicate the PNR formed as a splinter group
from the Partido Revolucionario (PR) or the Movimiento de
Liberación Nacional (MLN) in 1970 and was granted legal
recognition in 1978 or 1979.
The attached documents describe the party
as "moderate," "centrist" and "centre right," with one source
stating that "the legal PNR was essentially purchased as a vehicle
for the political ambitions of Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre" (Nyrop
1983, 166).
The most recent reference to the PNR found
among the available sources indicates that the party ceased to have
legal status after failing to obtain the required minimum of 4
percent of the vote in the 1990 elections (Latin American
Newsletters 6 Dec. 1990, 2).
Information on attacks or threats against
members of the PNR could not be found among the sources currently
available to the IRBDC.
Latin American Newsletters. 6 December
1990. Latin American Regional Reports: Mexico & Central
America. "Serrano and Carpio in January Run-Off." London: Latin
American Newsletters.
Nyrop, Richard F., ed. 1983. Area
Handbook Series: Guatemala: A Country Study. Washington:
American University, Foreign Area Studies.
Day, Alan J., ed. 1988. Political
Parties of the World. 3rd ed. Chicago: St. James Press, p.
242.
Latin American Newsletters. 6 December
1990. Latin American Regional Reports: Mexico & Central
America. "Serrano and Carpio in January Run-Off." London: Latin
American Newsletters.
Maol in, Ciar n O., ed. 1985. Latin
American Political Movements. London: Longman Publishing Group,
p. 148.
Nyrop, Richard F., ed. 1983. Area
Handbook Series: Guatemala: A Country Study. Washington:
American University, Foreign Area Studies, p. 166.
Painter, James. 1989. Guatemala:
False Hope, False Freedom - The Rich, the Poor and the Christian
Democrats. London: Catholic Institute for International
Relations, pp. 67-68.